Day 1: 24 June 2004
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9.30 - 10.15 |
Registration
and Coffee/Tea
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10.15 - 10.30 |
Welcome
- Mikhail Piotrovsky
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10.30 - 10.45 |
Introductory
Remarks
- Adel T. Adamova
- Farhad Hakimzadeh
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10.45 - 11.00 |
- Ivan
Steblin-Kamensky: Three Centuries of Persian Studies
in St. Petersburg
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11.00 - 13.00 |
Panel 1:
Orientalism and Orientalists |
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- Bert G. Fragner:
As Through a Veil - Hammer-Purgstall and his
'Ottomanist' View on Persian Literature
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Robert Irwin: Gobineau Versus the
Orientalists
- Mohammad Tavakoli-Targhi: Iranian History and Orientalist Historiography
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13.00 - 14.00 |
Lunch
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14.00 - 15.45 |
Panel 2: Literature (session 1)
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Leili Anvar Chenderoff: William Jones and his Contribution to
Persian Studies
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Beatrice Teissier: Persian Classics in Eighteenth Century
Britain: Culture or Propaganda?
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Parvin Loloi: Historical Background to English Translations of Persian
Literature,
1700-1916
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15.45 - 16.15 |
Coffee/Tea
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16.15 - 18.00 |
Panel 2: Literature (session 2)
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Elio Brancaforte: Seventeenth Century European Translations
of Sa'di's 'Gulistan'
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Nima Mina: Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall's Historiography of Persian
Literature and its Aftermath
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Christoph Buergel: Rosenzweig-Schwannau, Platen and Bodenstedt: Three
Nineteenth-Century German Private Scholars and Iranologists
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19.00 - 21.00 |
Exhibition Preview & Reception
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Day 2: 25 June
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9.30 - 11.15 |
Panel 3: Scholars & Travellers (session 1)
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Francis Richard: French Orientalists of the Seventeenth Century and the
Discovery of Persian Culture
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Paul Luft: Sir Robert Ker Porter: Wanderer Between Three Worlds
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J. Michael Rogers: Vasilii Vladimirovich Bartold and his
Contribution to Iranian Studies
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11.15 - 11.45 |
Coffee/Tea
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11.45 - 12.55 |
Panel 3: Scholars & Travellers (session 2)
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Mikhail Piotrovsky: Jakov Ivanovich Smirnov - Scholar and Curator
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Priscilla P. Soucek: A.V. Williams Jackson: 1862-1937
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12.55 - 14.00 |
Lunch
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14.00 - 14.30 |
Official Exhibition Opening
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14.30 - 16.00 |
Panel 4: Collections & Institutions
(session 1)
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Oleg Akimushkin: The History and Significance of the Ardebil Library
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Sergei Tourkin: Persian Manuscripts in the Collection of the
St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental
Studies: The History of the Collection and some Samples
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Olga Vasilieva: Persian Manuscripts in the Russian National
Library: The Khanykov, Simonich and Dolgoruky Collections
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16.00 - 16.30 |
Coffee/Tea
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16.30 - 18.00 |
Panel 4: Collections & Institutions
(session 2)
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Elena Korolkova: The Siberian Collection of Peter the Great
and the Culture of the Ancient Iranian-speaking Nomads
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Ramil Mirgasim Valeev & Alsu A. Arslanova: The Study of
Iranian Culture at Kazan in the Nineteenth and
early Twentieth Centuries
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Anatoly Ivanov: Count Aleksei Aleksandrovich Bobrinsky as a Collector of
Iranian Art
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Day 3: 26 June
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9.30 - 10.40 |
Panel 5: History & Historiography
(session 1)
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Michael Barry: Joao de Barros (1496-1570) and the Modern European Discovery
of Persia
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Pedro Moura Carvalho: Sixteenth Century Portuguese Works on
Persia: Their Impact on Portugal and Europe
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10.40 - 11.10 |
Coffee/Tea
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11.10 - 12.20 |
Panel 5: History & Historiography
(session 2)
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Giorgio Rota: The Knowledge of Persia in Venice (ca.
1450-1797)
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Sonja Brentjes: The Representation of Iran in Western Maps
from 1300 to 1840
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12.20 - 13.30 |
Panel 6: Art & Architecture (session 1)
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Talinn Grigor: 'Orient oder Rom' Debate: The 1901-Invention of
'Iran's'
Architectural Heritage by European Art Historians
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Mary McWilliams: 'La Gracilite Persane': Raymond Cox and the History of Persian
Textiles
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13.30 - 14.30 |
Lunch
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14.30 - 15.40 |
Panel 6: Art & Architecture (session 2)
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Robert Hillenbrand: 1900-1914: Drawing the European Veil over
the Face of Persian Painting
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Eleanor Sims: How the West Met the 'Amazing Images' of the
East: The Development of Collections of Iranian
Manuscripts in Europe and America
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15.40 - 16.10 |
Coffee/Tea
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16.10 - 18.00 |
Panel 7: Language
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Angelo Michele Piemontese: The Emergence of Persian Grammar
and Lexicography in Rome
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Dominic Parviz Brookshaw: The Study of Persian at Oxford in
the Seventeenth Century
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Michael H. Fischer: Persian Teaching in India and in Britain
during the Late Eighteenth and early Nineteenth
Centuries
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20.00 - 22.00 |
Boat ride on the Neva
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Day 4: 27 June
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9.30 - 10.40 |
Panel 8: Ancient Iran (session 1)
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Ali Mousavi: Perespolis and Susa: Rivalries, Nationalism, Politics and the
Dawn of Scientific Archaeology in Iran
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Nader Nasiri-Moghadam: The Beginning of French Archaeology in
Persia and its Impact on the Study of Persian Culture in
the West
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10.40 - 11.10 |
Coffee/Tea
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11.10 - 12.20 |
Panel 8: Ancient Iran (session 2)
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Irving Finkel: Iran and the Decipherment of Cuneiform Script
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Alexander Nikitin: The Study of Ancient Iranian Antiquities
in Russia
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12.20 - 12.45 |
Closing Remarks
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12.45 - 13.45 |
Lunch
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13.45 - 17.00 |
Private Hermitage Tours
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Day 5: 28 June
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9.30 - 17.00 |
Excursion to Pushkin Village & Pavlovsk |
